Quakers Hill killer's appeal dismissed

Nursing home mass murderer Roger Dean has failed in his legal bid to cut his jail term, a Sydney court has heard.

The former nurse, who caused the death of 11 people when he lit two fires at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in western Sydney as the victims slept on November 18, 2011, launched an appeal in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal against the life sentences he received in 2013.

He was not present in court on Friday morning as that appeal was dismissed.